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National Legionary State
King abdicates
The National Legionary State took power upon the ab-
dication of King Carol II. Carol was forced to step down
largely as the result of a series of humiliating losses of
territory. The first was on June 28, 1940 when Romania
had to withdraw its military and administration from
Bessarabia and northern Bukovina to avoid open war
with the Soviet Union that issued two ultimata on the
26th and 27th. Romania lost over 50,000 km². The Second
Vienna Award, August 30, 1940, passed 43,492 km² in
Northern Transylvania to Hungary. Also, the Treaty of
Craiova, looming at the time of Carol’s resignation, was
signed September 7, 1940 and gave the southern part of
Dobrudja (the Cadrilater) to Bulgaria.
Short-lived
The first Romanian government to be overtly aligned
with Nazi Germany and the Axis, the National Legionary
State was marked by uneasy relations between the
Guard’s leader Horia Sima and prime minister Antonescu.
The regime lasted 131 days and ended with the wide-
Ion Antonescu (left) and Horia Sima, leaders of the National spread violence of the unsuccessful Legionary Rebellion
Legionary State. (January 21–January 23, 1941), in which the Iron Guard
attempted to seize unilateral power and were, instead,
The National Legionary State (Romanian: Statul defeated. The National Legionary State was replaced by
Naţional Legionar) was the Romanian government from Antonescu’s own dictatorship.
September 6, 1940 to January 23, 1941. It was a single-
party regime dictatorship dominated by the overtly fas-
cist Iron Guard in uneasy conjunction with the head of
See also
government and Conducător Ion Antonescu, the leader of • Romania during World War II
the Romanian Army, who had been named prime minis-
ter only two days before King Carol II’s September 6 res-
ignation.
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Categories:
• 1940 establishments
• 1941 disestablishments
• Iron Guard
• Romania in World War II
• Fascist politics in Romania
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